This menu item type allows users in the Author, Publisher, and Editor groups to submit an article. Members of the Registered or Public groups will not be able to submit articles, and will see an error message when they select a menu item of this type.
To understand this better, let’s create a user who belongs to the Author group with the help of the User Manager. The User Manager can be invoked by either selecting Users ➤ User Manager or clicking the User Manager icon from the control panel. In the User Manager, click the New icon from the toolbar to create a new user. You’ll see a screen like the one shown in Figure 7-27.
For Name, enter Roger Peters, and for Login Name (with which your user will login to your web site), enter roger. Enter the passwords in Password and Confirm Password fields. Enter a valid e-mail address in the Email field. Open the Assigned User Groups tab and assign this user to the Author group. Keep the rest of the values at their defaults, and click the Save & Close icon on the toolbar to create this user.
Now open the New Electronics Among Cameras And Cell Phones menu item in edit mode. From the Select Article combo box (see Figure 7-29), select the Create Article menu item type option. Leave the values in the rest of the fields as is and click the Save & Close icon to save the changes.
From the front end of the web site, let new user roger log in your web site by entering the username and password, as shown in Figure 7-30.
After the user logs in, if the menu item New Electronics Among Cameras And Cell Phones is selected, you’ll get an article submission form to fill in (as shown in Figure 7-31). You can specify the category and subcategory under which the article is to be published, as well as the category of users for the article, metadata, keywords, and other information.
Source: Harwani B M (2015), Foundations of Joomla!, Apress; 2nd ed edition